Hello there, we are thinking of purchasing a few Ubiquiti cameras. My main question is, do we need to purchase the NVR to manage them? I'm wondering if it is possible to manage them on a local server with the same software. Only reason I would rather go with our own servers instead of the NVR is because its a little expensive and we already have the servers and storage here. Thanks everyone.

The UniFi Video software is a free download from ubnt.com and can run on your own hardware. Check out the downloads page for system requirements as stated in the user guide - https://www.ubnt.com/download/.﻿

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The UniFi Video software is a free download from ubnt.com and can run on your own hardware. Check out the downloads page for system requirements as stated in the user guide - https://www.ubnt.com/download/.﻿

Not necessary. You can download FREE nvr software for windows / linux flavours and run your own nvr. Ubiquity NVR is a unique niche piece of hardware that does not cost too much money, but its not necessary to own to roll out their cameras.